Jeffrey Zeldman
Web designer who co-founded A List Apart and the Web Standards Project.
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- Jeffrey Zeldman is an American web designer, writer and publisher, known for pushing the web to adopt standards.
- He co-founded the Web Standards Project in 1998 and turned A List Apart into a web magazine the same year.
- He founded the studio Happy Cog in 1999, co-founded the conference An Event Apart with Eric Meyer in 2005, and started the A Book Apart imprint in 2010.
- His book Designing with Web Standards (2003) was translated into thirteen languages.
Key facts
- Born
- 12 January 1955, Queens, New York1
- Co-founded
- Web Standards Project (1998, project leader from 1999 to 2002); A List Apart; An Event Apart (2005, with Eric Meyer); A Book Apart (2010)1
- Studios
- Founded Happy Cog (1999); left in 2016 and started Studio Zeldman1
- Books
- Taking Your Talent to the Web (2001); Designing with Web Standards (2003, revised 2006 and 2009)1
- Website
- zeldman.com, online from May 19952
- Podcast
- Founder and host of The Big Web Show2
- Education
- Indiana University Bloomington (1977); MFA in fiction writing, University of Virginia (1979)1
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